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Meet Josh Tucker: The Man Behind the Dodgers' Twitter Feed

He's got a quarter of a million Twitter followers, but you don't know his name. He's talked about on social media more positively -- and is responsible for more smiles from fans -- than the Dodgers' Luis Cruz, Ted Lilly and Juan Uribe combined. He's baseball savvy, he's creative and he's the man beh ... More >>

Jason Collins, L.A. Native, Becomes First Active NBA Player To Come Out

Los Angeles-bred NBA player Jason Collins today became the first active major-league athlete to come out as gay. He's 34 and a 12th-season player who's now a free agent: He certainly took his time. Collins wrote a first-person piece about his journey. It comprises the May 6 cover story of Sports Il ... More >>

Art Shay, Legendary Celebrity Photographer, Talks About the Crazy Tricks He Used When Taking Photos of Famous People

Art Shay has been a troublemaker ever since he moved from the Bronx to San Francisco to become Life magazine's youngest bureau chief at 26. "That was recently," he jokes, "in 1948." On election day of that year, then-California governor and Republican candidate for vice president Earl Warren was po ... More >>

Facebook Censors Kaskade's Body Paint Photo of This Girl

See also: *Rave Standoff in Hollywood: Cops Move in to Disperse Crowds That Came to See DJ Kaskade *Our slideshow: Kaskade @ The Palladium *LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Earlier this week EDM DJ and producer Kaskade posted a photo on Facebook from the Miami stop of ... More >>

MOCA to Import 'Heavier Rock' From 'Much Farther Away'

In a move emblematic of the fierce competition for museumgoers, MOCA will follow the recent phenomenon of the LACMA Rock by importing a "heavier rock" transported from "much farther away," the museum announced in a statement. For MOCA's installation, dubbed Elevated Math, artist Layne Christensen w ... More >>

Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "I'm blaming you if I puke later." "Fine. But admit it in the story," Hanni El Khatib replies, passing a vodka and soda that I didn't order. We've been ... More >>

Nick Waterhouse, Papa - SXSW - 3/16/12

See also: *50 Cent, Eminem, and the Best of SXSW Yesterday *Nick Waterhouse meets a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Better than...worrying if your shoes match your purse. Nylon magazine and Guess Jeans teamed up for a SXSW day party in the chic W hotel in Austin, on a balcony where stylish couc ... More >>

UCLA Chancellor, Athletic Director and Coach Respond to Sports Illustrated Cover Story Slamming Bruin Basketball

Updated at the bottom with responses from Chancellor Block, Athletic Director Dan Guerrero and Coach Ben Howland. First posted at 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 29. UCLA is already defending its basketball program from a Sports Illustrated cover story that doesn't hit newsstands until Monday. The piece, which ... More >>

Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Goes Indie Rock on Everyone's Asses

​See also: *Nick Waterhouse: The Young Man Who Makes Old R&B *Top 10 Los Angeles Albums of 2011 The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue came out this week, and for some reason it went all indie on everybody's asses. A-Trak, the world's most hipster DJ, graces the pages, and the models' videos a ... More >>

Top 5 Athlete Diets: Wade Boggs's Chicken-a-Day, Kenyan Ugali Steve Nash's Nuts

Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions, but plenty of athletes don't swear by dry flakes for their daily sustenance. Lakers forward Ron Artest used to drink Hennessey at half-time. His teamate Lamar Odom likes jelly beans and gummy bears. Former Yankees slugger Babe Ruth once inhaled 24 hot d ... More >>

Concussions Take a Terrible Toll on America's Young Athletes

iPhone Porn? There's a Controversial New App For That

Hottest Girls​While your iPhone's browser can take you just about anywhere your pervy heart desires, Apple has been touchy about approving actual apps with sexual content. The App Store might as well be an Hamish town, because, according to company policy: Apps containing pornographic materia ... More >>

Estella Warren Allegedly Kicks Cop, Escapes Police Station After Suspected Hit-And-Run DUI Near West Hollywood

IMDBEstella Warren.​It was an eyebrow-raising escape, tweeted by Weho Daily at 1:38 a.m. today: LAPD's Wilshire station just had an escaped prisoner... blonde girl, about 28yo, 5'9″ tall. But they found her just before big search. It appears that the blonde girl was non other than actres ... More >>

Los Angeles Farmers Stadium? L.A.'s Proposed NFL Venue Downtown Might Already Have Naming-Rights Deal

FoxCletus would like L.A. Farmers Stadium.​Los Angeles has been called many things - douchetown, Mexico City II, land of the celebutard. But a heartland of farming it is not. So you have to hand it to the folks at Anschutz Entertainment Group, the people behind Staples Center and the proposal ... More >>

Wake Up Each Morning To Drug War History With The Drug Policy Alliance 2011 Calendar

Drug Policy AlliancePresident Richard Nixon was the original war-on-drugs crusader.​Every day we wake up we think, ah, what a glorious morning -- wonder what's happening in the world of drug-war history. California is, after all, the wake-and-bake state. Good thing the Drug Policy Alliance is ... More >>

USC Has Best Month Ever: Obama Plans A Visit, Journalism Gets $50 Million, New Prez Steps Up (And His Name Is Chrysostomos)

Sports IllustratedMaybe even better than Obama​The sun may not be shining, but the University of [Southern] California has more than one reason to beat its WASPy chest with pride this October. 1. Amid a slew of West Coast visits from top-billed politicians, USC snagged the No. 1 man on campus ... More >>

Mike Penner, Christine Daniels: A Tragic Love Story

The L.A. Times sports journalist lived most of his life wanting to be a woman. He discovered too late that he wanted his wife even more

Jose Lima, 1972-2010

Flickr image by Malingering Jose Lima​Jose Lima, one of the most entertaining characters in recent Dodgers history, died early this morning of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles, according to a report in ESPN Deportes. He was 37.Lima had not pitched in the majors since going 0-4 for the New ... More >>

Monrovia Track Coach Wins League Title, Loses PR War

Taylor Block (SI.com)Robin Laird, South Pas track star​After 30 years coaching track, Monrovia High's Mike Knowles has learned a thing or two about the rule book.So when he spotted a friendship bracelet on the wrist of South Pasadena's top pole vaulter, Robin Laird, he sprang into action. Citing a ... More >>

Stephen Colbert's Olympic Moment: How to Cut a Sandwich with an Ice Skate

Jamie Squire/Getty ImagesStephen Colbert finds a blade for his sandwich​You can't say that Stephen Colbert doesn't put his money where his mouth is. Or, in this case, his lunch. The Comedy Central comedian became the patron saint of speed skating when he bailed out the US Olympic speed skating ... More >>

Lakers Are The Sports Franchise Of The Decade

Da Lakers.​Yes, another year-end, top-of-the-decade list, this time from Sports Illustrated. The magazine says the Los Angeles Lakers are the sports franchise of the decade. The Staples Center-based ballers beat out the NFL's New England Patriots (number two), the University of Connecticut's w ... More >>

Carry On Beckham: New Book Details Soccer Star's L.A. Mishaps

Pity Posh 'n Becks trying to set up house in Los Angeles after the British couple arrived here in 2007 so the soccer superstar could play for the Galaxy. First the young thirtysomethings were refused wine service at a top restaurant because they carried no I.D.s on them. Then there was the fame ... More >>

Joe Torre Book Clips Yankees

Call it another front in the N.Y. versus L.A. war, but now Los Angeles Dodger manager Joe Torre has launched a salvo against his former team, the New York Yankees. In an Associated Press story picked up by NBC Sports/MSNBC and other sources, Torre's new book, The Yankee Years, spills the dirt on:&nb ... More >>

Brooks Melchior

Play-by-playboy

Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

Clooney tackles preglory gridiron

Donald T. Sterling's Skid Row Mirage

The billionaire Clippers owner claims he's creating a major homeless center. He's not, but image is what counts.

Gallery Roundup: Liebowitz, Beshty, Hoshino, Bon

Leviathans, vessels and bees

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That Bitter Aftertaste

Hate-crime victim’s mom wants answers as perpetrators go back to school and sports

Freaks and Freaks

Murder On the Last Turn

Mickey Thompson was a renowned race-car driver and promoter. Mike Goodwin was the brash, egocentric creator of motocross. They became business partners. Then all hell broke loose.

Mr. Old School

Steve Lopez

Drag Princess

Mendy Fry, the nitro-burning CPA

All Charges Dropped!

A Kobe Bryant timeline

The Good Soldier

The Man Who Would Be King

L.A. dreamer longs to sit on the throne in Equatorial Guinea

What Is Compassion?

Behind the women’s tennis tour

The Hustler

Danny McGoorty, professional character

The Passion and Power of "Sugar" Shane Mosley

Heil! Heil! The Gang’s All Here

Theater’s hate crimes of the heart

Was It Good for You Too?

Who got screwed when Time-Warner jumped into bedwith AOL?

The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

Isabella Rossellini in Central Park, Don Cheadle in Louisiana, Jon Favreau in the ring

Bill and Steve's Servile Adventure

Long hours on the HTML assembly line

Looking for a Fight (page 1)

Lucia Rijker and the changing face of women's boxing

The Myth of the Flush